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Beneath this park rest the stone foundations and floor tiles of the historic adobe where Mexican General Andres Pico and U.S. Lieutenant Colonel John C. Fremont signed the Treaty of Cahuenga on January 13, 1847. Signing the treaty ended the hostilities in California between the United States and Mexico and led to the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo, which ceded California to the U.S. and formally ended the Mexican-American War. The adobe, then owned by the Spaniard Eulogio de Celis, may have been built as early as 1795, when this land on El Camino Real was occupied by the veteran Mexican soldier Mariano de la Luz Verdugo. Between 1810 and 1834, the San Fernando Mission owned the land. The adobe also served as a stop on the Butterfield Stage from 1858 to 1861, carrying passengers, mail, and cargo throughout the western United States from Tipton, MO, to San Francisco, CA. In 1997, the archaeological remains of the adobe were determined eligible for listing on the National Register of Historic Places, and the remnants have been protected in place for future generations to discover, observe, and interpret.
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